[Alpine-info] Where do removed messages go

[Bret Busby via Alpine-info]

Hello.

I am running alpine 2.25 on Linux Mint Mate 21.3 .

I have just exited alpine, a few minutes ago, and it displayed a message 
stating that, for the folder that I was exiting,  a number of messages 
were saved, and, 1 message was removed.

I do not know why it removed whichever message it removed.

Has that message been vaporised, or, is it somewhere that it can be 
retrieved?

In that particular folder, the messages are of very great importance to 
me, involving decades of work, and, indiscriminate removal of messages, 
especially without requiring verification of the desire to remove a 
message, is very harmful.

So, I want to know where the message is now, if it still exists, so that 
I can find it, see what it is, and, restore it.

Thank you in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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